On March 5, 2015, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, William F. “Bill” Browder made a speech at the Oxford Union describing his personal experiences investing in Russia, the death of Sergei Magnitsky and the kleptocratic nature of Putin’s regime. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he became blacklisted from Russia as a “threat to national security.” He has since emerged as one of Putin’s most strident critics, and a prominent human rights activist, after the death of Hermitage’s lawyer and auditor Sergei Magnitsky in 2009. Following his speech at the Oxford Union, Browder agreed …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
